Toilet-paper holder.



No. 755,657. v PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904. S. S. HARRINGTON. TOILET PAPERHOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. HARRINGTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOILET-PAPER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,657, dated March29, 1904.

Application filed December 30, 1903. Serial No. 187,115. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. HARRINGTON, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inToilet-Paper Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to supporting devices for toilet-paper packages,the object being to provide in a device of this class an improved frameon which the rolled-up package of said paper is hung, which supports apackage of said paper in rolled-up form convenient for removing piecestherefrom; and the invention consists in the peculiar form andarrangement of said package-holding devices, all as hereinafter fullydescribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing forming part of this application, which consists of asingle figure, 2 indicates a folded or rolled up package oftoilet-paper, the lower portion of which is shown in section, and 3indicates atube, of thick paper-board, on which the toilet-paper isrolled in an oval form in cross-section.

Apackage-hanger 4, of suitable wire, is bent to substantially the shapeshown, whereby a loop as is formed at the upper extremity and a hook atis formed at the lower end of the leg 6 thereof, which engageswith thelower end or border of said internal tube 3, as shown, and the oppositeleg 0 extends into the package to a point about midway between the endsthereof, and thence its lower end g extends outwardly through the sideof said tube and package and has its extremity 6 turned upwardlyopposite the outer side thereof.

The package of paper has a slot d cut in that part of it through whichthe end g of the leg 0 extends, and a slit f is cut from a point on theupper end of said package above and opposite said slot d nearly to theupper end of the latter, the purpose of which is to facilitate (inconnection with the extremity e on the leg 0) the separation of piecesfrom the outer end of said wound paper of the package. If preferred,said loop a may be omitted and the package hung directly on the upperend of the hanger. In separating said pieces from the wound strip theouter free end of the same is grasped, thereby drawing the part 0 of thepaper strip between the'slots f and al forcibly against the end 9 andthe upstanding .part or extremity 6 thereof, thereby tearing a piecefrom the free end of the strip, and so on until the whole of the package2 is exhausted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. Means for supporting a rolled-up package of paper in a hung-upposition with one ex-' tremity of said paper free, consisting of ahanger having a loop on the upper extremity thereof, two arms pendingtherefrom for entrance into and supporting engagement with said package,the end of one of said arms extending through one side of said packageand having its extremity upturned opposite the outer side thereof,substantially as described.

2. A package of rolled-up toilet-paper, a

paper is rolled, a hanger for said roll having.

a part extending from the interior thereof beyond one end, and oneextremity extending from said interior through and beyond the outer sidethereof against which the paper is drawn in severing pieces therefrom,substantially as described.

4;. A rolled-up package of toilet-paper having the slits f and (Zthrough one side thereof, a supporting-tube of paper-board on which saidpaper is rolled, a metal hanger for said part of the outer side of saidpackage between roll having a supporting-loop above one end said slits,substantially as described.

thereof, a leg on which is a hook engaging the lower end of said tube,and a second leg the SAMUEL HARRINGTON 5 end of which extends outwardlythrough one Witnesses:

side of said tube and package, and has the ex- K. I. CLEMoNs, tremitythereof turned upward opposite that H. L. SPRAGUE.

